26 JANUARY 1850, page 11

Topics Of The Day.

AGRICULTURAL POVERTY RELIEVED BY A RENT- CHARGE FR A NCHISE. Ii' pseudo-official rumour may be trusted, and it has not been started as a diversion of popular claims, Ministers......

The Choice Of Hercules Mercator.

WHEN Virtue and .Pleasure invited the youthful Hercules to enter upon the paths over which they respectively presided, that dis- tinguished demigod not only exercised his......